Homer the Poet

Blind since birth, Homer the poet was a marvel and a genius of the greatest caliber, writing poetry that inspired the people of ancient Greece, the Romans, the people of the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and even modern people, so that for all intents and purposes you could say that Homer was the universal poet, the poet most known around the world, whose works outshone even the Bible in popularity with the literati and those in the know, a poet who speaks to modern tastes and university professors and adolescent boys with his visions of the Trojan War, with his descriptions of brave Ulysses, and with his depictions of the Achaeans in battle, hurling their spears through the bodies of their foes, so that the spears would slice a person in two and come out the other side and keep on traveling, maybe hitting a horse or another warrior as it exited from the first soldier it killed, and all of this is a testament to the great power of this poet, who, though blind, could paint with words better than most writers living today.